Diecutting-specific fonts and dingbats
There are a bazillion fonts on the Internet, but only a handful that have been created especially for use with desktop diecutters. Here’s a list of the ones I could find (please let me know if you have found or created one):
- AlphaFrame (TTF created in Inkscape from shapes by Denise)
- Arrow Maker (my own creation on Dafont)
- 09Kutups
- Banner Bridge
- Basic Mats
- Basic Shapes
- Border Bits
- Box Font and others from Scentials
- Crafter Stitch by Nadine for Silhouette UK blog
- Edges, Edges 2 and Edges 3
- Frames
- Lattice Crafting
- Layered Diamond and Star fonts courtesy of Rachelann
- Nestie Lookalikes
- Scrapbook
- Solly PopTab (a font for making pop-up cards)
- Top College ( a font for making stand-up letters)
- Tribal
- RB Assorted courtesy of Rachellann
- Typable Rhinestone Font more commercially here
Other great fonts and dings for cutting
These weren’t designed for die cutters, but they might as well have been.
- Cursives for diecutters (great for welding)
- Ten more great free welding cursive fonts for diecutters
- Ten great free dingbats for diecutting
- Ten great Doodlebats for diecutting
- Ten more great Doodlebats for diecutting
- Useful font for wordbooks
Fonts like Cricut Font Cartridges
- Craftedge Forums Matching Fonts section
- Darcy’s illustrated list
- Kim Score’s list
Dingbats like Cricut Shape Cartridges
- DB Hello Cupcake (compare to Sweet Treats cartridge)
- DB Cameo Busts (compare to cameos in Heritage cartridge)
- DB Peppermint Holiday (compare to Winter Woodland)
- 2Peas DW Bow Wow (compare to Paper Pups cartridge) no longer available
- 2Peas Zoo Baloo (compare to Zoobaloo cartridge) no longer available
- EFon (has several animals similar to Doodlecharms and strawberry similar to Indie Art cartridge)
- DB Asian Serenity (Pagoda) no longer available
- DB Formal Affair (Forever Young) no longer available
- DB Passport (Destinations) no longer available
Monogram Fonts
- Harold’s Black Oval Monograms
- Monogram kk SC
- 101! Antique Alpha
- 101! Antique Alpha II
- 101! Castlez
- Kay’s Monogram list at Dafont
Stencil Fonts
- my blog post on stencil fonts for cutting
- Stencil fonts on Fontstruct
- Free stencil version of Lobster plus tutorial on creating stencil fonts from Nadine Muir
Pen/Marker Fonts/ Cricut writing fonts /Silhouette drawing fonts
- Lettering Delights Thin Fonts
- my blog post on “single line” fonts for cutters
- 15 more free “single line” fonts for cutters
- Great post from Nadia at With Glittering Eyes showing many sample fonts drawn
- More great examples from Nadia
- Many fonts sampled with fine tip sharpie (nice list with links from Gigi)
- Many Silhouette sketch fonts sampled from CraftyTina
- 9 free “single line” fonts from CamBam (some characters do not work properly in cutting software, proceed with caution)
- Thin font ideas, resources and links from Amy Chomas
- Numerous fonts sampled with sketch pens from Sensory Emporium
- Print style handwriting fonts sampled from It’s Always Ruetten
- Filled in fonts for gel pens
- More filled in fonts for gel pens
- Still more filled in fonts for gel pens
- How to fill fonts and images using the sketch tool in SSDE
- How to fill fonts with the line fill tool in SCAL4
- How to add fill to any font or image with Inkscape
- How to add fill to any font or image with Inkscape and Eggbot extensions
- How to fill fonts using inset in Inkscape
- How to fill fonts using inset in Silhouette Studio (video)
- How to use Lettering Delights Doodlebats as gel pen digistamps
- Generating single line text in Inkscape
- Creating single line text and graphics with MTC
- Creating single line text and graphics with RapidResizer
- Creating single line text and graphics with Adobe Illustrator
- Creating single line text and graphics with Autotrace
- Creating single line text and graphics with an iPad
Other Font Links
- How to make your own font with Inkscape
- How to make your own font in Windows 10
- Making and merging fonts with IcoMoon
- Free character map template-Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator
- Free character map template-Silhouette Studio
- Fontstruct free web-based font maker
- Calligraphr free web-based font maker
- Paintfont.com free web-based font maker
- Yourfonts web-based font maker (fee)
- Darcy’s font info and links (font ID and more) no longer available
- Greek Fonts
- How to un-distress type in Silhouette Studio
- How to un-distress type in Make the Cut
- How to view installed and uninstalled fonts in MacOS
- Making the most of Dafont.com
- Using Laura Worthington Fonts (Samantha) in Silhouette Studio
- Using Fancy Fonts (Samantha, Cantoni) in Cricut Design Space
- All the Samantha info and videos on one page
- Understanding Type Size in Silh Studio (also helpful for Cricut)
- Video Recording of Scrappy Dew Live where I teach on Fonts
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